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Thomas Paul Schirrmacher, ISHR-President and author of several books on the history of slavery, human trafficking and racism, has visited two of the most important historical memorials to the intercontinental slave trade in Ghana and Zanzibar.
The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, Thomas Schirrmacher, gave a lecture on “Human Trafficking – The Return of Slavery” in Lecture Hall XII of the University of Cologne at the invitation of the student association ‘campus connect’.
The European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) celebrated on January 16 the 25 years of socio-political engagement in Europe.
A review by Christiane Zeigermann on the book Menschenhandel – Die Rückkehr der Sklaverei. Courtesy of jesus.de.
The Christian relief organization “Mission Freedom” (Hamburg) has opened a shelter in the Rhine-Main region for women who want to bail out of forced prostitution.
Thomas Schirrmacher. Human Trafficking – The Return to Slavery. The WEA Global Issues Series. Vol. 12. Culture and Science Publishing: Bonn, 2013.
ARTICLE The term slave in Bible translations is given to misunderstanding, because it is all too easy to mistakenly read the cruel slavery of the Greeks, Romans, Muslims, Europeans and Americans into the Old and New Testaments.